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    onlooker


    1. In these large executions, the executioner in his frenzy would often seize an unsuspecting onlooker he had a grudge against, or had been bribed to remove, and the victim's head would be hacked off amid the plaudits of the onlookers


    2. Only the onlooker is real, call him Self or Atma


    3. he was more an onlooker than a participant


    4. When her flight was announced, she felt her stomach turn over and realized that her adventure was finally happening; but the strange feeling she had that this was happening to somebody else and she, Lorna, was just an onlooker, stayed with her as she took her hand-luggage and moved forward behind the woman; and went though the exit onto the tarmac of the runway where the huge Boeing was humming and whining with lights flashing, while the passengers, apparently unconcerned and chatting happily to one another, ascended the stairs into the vast stomach of the plane


    5. Somehow it’s scarier for the onlooker than the biker, but I had the impression that this type of activity was not my chosen path of future career expansion


    6. Upon returning to the taxi to pay the driver and collect the remaining odds and ends, Kara and her boy encounter a curious onlooker


    7. Any onlooker could see immediately that these


    8. Murray settled down on the back seat and studied the registration numbers of the vehicles as they came and went from the car park, it was just before noon when a Nissan Patrol with the registration Murray was looking for came rolling down the ramp and parked two bays away from the lift door, Mr Hawk stepped from the car and gave a casual glance around the car park, at least it would have looked like a casual glance to an onlooker but Murray knew better, Mr Hawk had scanned the whole car park looking for a threat, he had counted and evaluated every car in the car park, finding nothing untoward he then walked to the lift door and disappeared from Murray’s view, Murray stayed were he was without moving and sure enough two minutes later Mr Hawk stuck his head around the lift door and studied the car park again, checking that nothing had changed, he was behaving exactly as a professional should, as Murray would behave if the roles were reversed, although Mr Hawk would never recognise the fact he had placed himself at a slight mental disadvantage, Mr Hawk’s first impression of Mr Jay had been less than flattering, in fact he thought Mr Jay was a bit of a dork, a clever dork but never the less a dork, not a professional like himself just someone who played around with safe’s and lock’s, this was exactly the impression Murray had set out to promote, even though Murray had outsmarted him, Mr Hawk’s subconscious had still not discarded this first impression that Mr Jay was a gifted amateur, the prison sentence for receiving a measly amount of jewellery reinforced this opinion, this gave Murray a huge advantage


    9. onlooker could easily tell that everyone there wore their colors


    10. All the Franks looked up at once at the shuttlecraft that was steadily growing as it approached, with more than one onlooker then running away in panic to go hide somewhere

    11. of a love triangle in a way that the onlooker


    12. an onlooker and just views what the breath shapes


    13. At the stage of pashyanti, the mind is set up as a witness-an onlooker


    14. As the witness who stands as an onlooker and knows


    15. He just stands as a witness-an onlooker (updrashta)


    16. “(And) who, like a dispassionate onlooker, is unmoved by the


    17. this arduous discipline is that in this state the onlooker, the individual


    18. There is a burst of flame, just as he intends, and a curse from his onlooker


    19. A casual onlooker could have mistaken him for the head of a band of ruffians


    20. It had only been a few days since Leander’s death, and to a disinterested onlooker the actions of those aboard might have seemed more or less exactly the same as before, (the men were still performing the same routine procedures, and still catching crabs, after all) but the atmosphere had changed significantly

    21. As one lady onlooker put it: "Gee whiz! he


    22. would be circling a centre point, as the particles would be coming towards the onlooker


    23. other matter would be circling the centre point while rushing away from the onlooker


    24. Why? A single onlooker is completely worthless


    25. But who inside civilization is willing to be the first to cry halt? What good are a few lone voices against the inertia of 6 billion souls bent on accumulation? What can stop a 10,000-year-old juggernaut from continuing to snowball down its path of growth and accumulation? Everyone shares the same opinion as the man hurtling down from the top of a 10-story building before hitting the pavement… as he cries out to the onlooker standing at the window: ‘So far, so good!’ The hard fact is that we merely pass on the results of our accumulating greed to the next generation and let them deal with it


    26. onlooker at the rear of the crowd


    27. Male beauty in association with female beauty breeds in the onlooker a sense of fear


    28. If you were an onlooker, you might imagine a maintenance exigency was being addressed


    29. I began to criticize them, but remembered my rules and my benefactor’s words- that a true Freemason should be a zealous worker for the state when his aid is required and a quiet onlooker when not called on to assist


    30. She knew every process of shoe- making intimately from the point of view of an onlooker, and from the office end, but she had never done it herself before, and the first pair of shoes were terrible

    31. From time to time, a trouble of which the onlooker understands nothing appears on his surface


    32. At the very door stood a young man in a rubber jacket, who seemed more concerned about the impression he produced on the onlooker than about what he was saying


    33. I began to criticize them, but remembered my rules and my benefactor’s words—that a true Freemason should be a zealous worker for the state when his aid is required and a quiet onlooker when not called on to assist


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    Synonyms for "onlooker"

    looker-on onlooker bystander witness eyewitness beholder

    "onlooker" definitions

    someone who looks on